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Over The Edge Radio Archive (Seeland 031). Negativland's live mix radio show "Over The Edge" has been the longest-running block of free-form audio collage in radio history. With Negativland's Don Joyce at the helm, the weekly show was broadcast from KPFA FM in Berkeley California from 1981 to 2015. His death on July 22, 2015 closed a very large and long chapter in the group's history. 


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Beginning with World war II, this ranges from Hitler's vertical take-off vehicles, to the transplantation of that program to us where saucer craft emerged, to Roswell's extra-terrestrial saucer and a few of its close to being there witnesses, to Area 51s' S4 area where that saucer is rumoredwitnessed to have ended up. Updated Bob Lazar telling the story of his employment there as an alien saucer back engineer, and Victor who smuggled a video of a live alien with humans in a holding room out of...
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More Beatles on the Magical Mystery Tour, The Porch Patrol's Oldie McOlderson is live in the studio to interview Izzy Isn't concerning his draft dodging days, the San Francisco music scene continues to develop, and it's a 1967 New Years celebrity explosion at KRLA in Los Angeles.
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Trucks, trucking, those who drive trucks and those who love them passionatey have little to do with the guests on this show, all of whom appear to have been driven to the studio, but probably BY OTHER MEANS.
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Emphasizing a lot of tapes from the homemade cassette era, we explore the lo-fi unheard and unhearable, most all of a Negativland 2000 tour broadcast made at WNUR, Evanston Il, Hoax's central Europe DJ, Pastor Dick on the bottle, Linda McCartney, and so much more not broadcast quality material and noise we don't no where to stop, or start. We had to turn the Receptacle upside down and shake out the contents stuck on the bottom after this one.
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We continue with all audio from the 60s. This one is about the emergence of the Beatles, focusing on all their early 60s work, plus a few songs contemporary with them, interrupted only by live coverage of Kennedy and Oswald getting shot via KLIF, Dallas. And UFO's are still out there.
Topic: Series: Universe
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This group of circuit benders present the art form live. Circuit bending involves manipulating the circuitry of electronic toys with audio and other instruments to create new and unintended sounds with them. The process is discussed and described, and we mix throughout with these sounds. Featuring "bending artists" Univac (http://techdweeb.com), Khate (http://khate.org), FeralCatScan (http://feralcatscan.com), and Big City Orchestra (http://ubuibi.org) threatening to crash through the...
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On we go, covering The Moses convention and the Ten Commandments, Larry king and The numbers Man discuss God, youth songs for Christ, wandering with Jesus, callers and more.
Topic: Series: Your Brain is God
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Over the Edge: Car Show
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Close your eyes - this is such stuff as which dreams are made of. It's not "Over the Wedge", it's "Fire Walk With Me", a five-hour journey through the scenes, voices, and music of David Lynch. Broadcast between Seasons 1 and 2, it's not just about Twin Peaks - but it's mostly about Twin Peaks. Thrown in are Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Dune... characters and sounds pervade throughout the night of seedy underbellies, breathless love, and mysterious backwards declarations. Babs...
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Over the Edge: Jack And Jazz Part I
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"65 turns into '66 with the focus on the touring Beatles at the end of that rope. WABC's continuous coverage of the Beatles in New York City, Casey Kasem reads a Beatle fan letter, DJs rant, IDs play, The Byrds are influenced, and lots of live Beatle performances, chopped and not.
Topic: Series: How Radio Was Done
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Over the Edge: Another UFO The Circlemakers III
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Shortly after Dr. Harold Camping predicted the end of the world for May 21, Dr. Camping and Brindle Spork join me, Izzy Isnt, for and in-depth, live mix look at that prediction, its aftermath, and how our brains are hard wired for faith driven belief without evidence. Lots of discussion and callers.
Topic: Series: Your Brain is God
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An unexpected 5 hour show. Carrying on the enormous burden of delivering music from the Devil, himself, we carry over Satanic black Death music from last week, as well as the very FIRST meeting of Pastor Dick and Harold Camping via telephone and demonic carbon monoxide, then musical suicide by Judas Priest and the resulting court testimony on develish musical hypnotism. Subliminal back masking, Demon possession and exorcisms, rock sonics as a mind altering tool of the devil, Dick Vaughn goes...
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Over the Edge: Music Is 2
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Over the Edge, August 27, 1987. "Holes". Don announces that Rob and friends will be there, and that the show is called "Holes". Stories of holes and tunnels through the earth mix with samples of Dune's worms making holes, and a wide variety of songs (Beatles, Zappa, Mindy McCready. Raumschiff Edelweiss) singing about or including holes. Calls from the receptacles are incredulous we're going to cover nothing but holes, but here we are, and we're not digging out soon. Stories...
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"We give over 5 hours of programming to the Weatherman's house in Seattle where he and Dick send out their audio files via Shoutcast, and then we connect to Shoutcast and send them out via KPFA. This works great, with very clean sound, and we also get to hear the Weatherman go to the bathroom, wander around his garage, and all their other fully miked events in Seattle. Complicating the situation, we also have Richard manning a live phone on our air to bypass the Internet delay involved or...
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Over the Edge: Still All Art Radio
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Disc One of "The Time Zones Exchange Project" (referred to in the show as "old stuff,") is played throughout this plea to modern executives to pay attention to their radio. Colonizing Venus appears to be a project difficult to sustain due to a hoard of resignations, and Earth executuives in charge of that decide it's all in the selection of candidates, too much riff raff going over there, etc. Executives, Disney, Eisner, and Redstone but in, along with lots of callers in the...
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We continue 1968 radio with a budding radio host making tapes during his combat duty in Vietnam, William F. Buckley interviewing Jack Kerouac on the meaning of the hippies, the Firesign Theatre getting re-grooved, A Child's Garden Of Grass, and a lot more music about all this.
Topic: Series: How Radio Was Done
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Over the Edge: California Superstation. Originally aired in January of 1983 on KPFA radio. Runtime 3h:23m:44s. The California Super Station was Dick Vaughn's precursor programming to "Moribund Music Of The 70s." This is a combination of two CSS shows from '83 and '84. Although Dick's OTE CDs have all the records edited out, this is how it was done on the air with all the 70s cuts played in their entirety. The radio point here was to "convince" KPFA listeners that the station...
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Includes an alternate mix of "Car Bomb" as "Computer Bomb."
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Negativland took this OTE radio idea to Toronto to perform it in front of an audience, and this is that performance, with more stuff added here that did not get into the live show. The show is best described as a 2005 live-mix radio documentary on mass cultural delusion. That's right, there is no God.
Topic: Series: It's All In Your Head
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We cover the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the contradictory observations of panicked witnesses which follow, Freedom 7 comes back to Earth, KSAN radio in the 60s, and songs of the time.
Topic: Series: Universe
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Beginning with historical lore of witch seductions and sucubus type nocternal encounters, we arrive at the creepy contemporary version involving sex with aliens, particularly the oft sighted reptillion alien species who seem to enjoy this activity most. First person accounts of not always reluctant intercourse, the screen image disguises that sometimes gets the foreplay going, and what all this might be about. -- Don Joyce
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Over the Edge: Another UFO - Mutilation
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Directed by C. Elliot Friday. 1/2 (Caution: some nuclear holocaust scenes). The Digit household is in an uproar when Midge takes painting lessons and Dunk has to keep answering the door. Midge Digit: Refrigerator Lady. Duncan Digit: Omer Edge. Savvy Romero: Duncan Renaldo. Lighting: Don Joyce.
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Over the Edge: Time Zones Exchange Project
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19820517 No More OTE, It's Dick Vaughn!
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Science vs. religion throughout, with Alan Watts and a couple long clips of Negativland rehearsing "It's All In Your Head."
Topic: Series: Your Brain is God
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It's finally 1968 and we tip toe through the horrors, as well as the tulips. Black soldiers discuss the raging war in Vietnam and at home. The assassinations of Malcom X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy, the Democratic Convention riots in Chicago, feminists demonstrate at the Miss America Pagent, and life becomes a style.
Topic: Series: How Radio Was Done
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Over the Edge: Another UFO The Early Years
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Over the Edge: The History of Space
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Over the Edge: Another UFO - Above and Below
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19820719 The Dumb, Stupid Come Out Line
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This is a special unscheduled 5 hour show continuing our audio trip through the movies. Beginning with an extended mix about the making of The Wizard Of Oz in 1938 combined with the concurrent Nazi rise to power, Triumph Of The Will, and The Sound Of Music's setting in Nazi Austria. The mix stays with war and shifts in time to remix Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Blackhawk Down, and their directors describing how they were made. Moving on to finish up with old and new Film Noir, and David...
Topic: Series: 24 Frames Per Second
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Over the Edge: The Blade Runner Remix. Originally aired in November of 1994 on KPFA radio. Runtime 3h:2m:20s. Upon discovering that Vangelis (maker of the theme music which begins every OTE) finally released his original soundtrack to Blade Runner, Scott Riddle hosts a 3 hour remix of the dialog from Blade Runner and all the original and associated music. This is one of my 3 all-time favorite movies and it provides a personally delightful playpen of disconnected sounds and plot. " Do you...
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In another 5 hour edition, this saga encompassing why there is no God continues. The power of the human mind's assumptions provide another extended program on the superstitious folly we call religion in all it's perplexing glory. Buck Logic returns with another Sci-Fi Aside, and plenty of songs throughout to punch the point home. What's it all about, Alfie?
Topic: Series: It's All In Your Head
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1967 radio continues with a WBAI discussion between John Cage and Morton Feldman about the intrusion of radio in modern sound, Martin Luther King gives a startling speech against the Vietnam war, Tom Donahue interviews the Grateful Dead on San Francisco's KMPX, as British and American psychedelic music plays right through the evolving social and musical turmoil.
Topic: Series: How Radio Was Done
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The show starts with an announcement that it's the last show for a while: Don and the rest of the Negativland crew are heading to Austria for the Ars Eletronika Festival, and won't be back until the third week in September. The show in Austria will be a live on-stage improvised mega-mix collaboration by Negativland, People Like Us, Music Toerist, and Barbed, all at the same time (and with live visuals by collage film maker Craig Baldwin). The theme will be the Sound of Music, and the sound of...
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1967 flowers with the Beatles making the Magical Mystery Tour film and album, The Supremes and their Coke ad, John Cage and Morton Feldman discuss radio and silence, and back to San Francisco for the Human Be-In, The Diggers, and seminal bands playing for free in the street, including some dynamite live Moby Grape and Mother Earth. Lots of music in this one.
Topic: Series: How Radio Was Done
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This densely dual injected mix is a sonic assault on the early life, times, and music of Frank Zappa. Frank talks, others talk about Frank, and lots and lots of familiar and unfamiliar Zappa music jousts with itself for 5 hours. Beginning with a 1963 appearance on Steve Allen's TV show in which a young and unknown Zappa gets Steve, his band, and his engineer to play real concrete music while Frank solos on bicycle, through a joint interview with John and Yoko preceding their Fillmore East jam...
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Pastor Dick rides the roller coaster of irreverent and satanic callers as he attempts another program on faith alone. Christian news, Christian weather, and Christian music from the J Brigade. The Bible Quiz, Big Brotherhood Companions, Mormons exposed, an inspirational song for children almost sung by Ralph Vivian Lust, stories for young people, and the Family Hour. The Weatherman is in an unusually bad mood and quits the group.
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A group of human specialists give advice on any subject to callers. Naturally, the most popular subject is sex, (nothing else seems to be even a distant second) all mixed up with moaning, Mr. Noisy, How To Speak Hip, Mr. Rogers and other assorted media advisory bites. 'The Weatherman got laid' rumor lures some calls from The Weatherman, and all this talking sometimes becomes complicated enough to break up into left and right channel discussion groups. Teetering on the edge of FCC titillation,...
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It's all computers, all night long, with most of Negativland, Dr. Ted Right, Dr. Dane Burrett,  The Weatherman, lots of callers, lots of noise, lots of computer talk, and lots of echo. Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your radio! A fun and busy show. KPFA folio description from 1982: Haggard remnants of a FCC assault squad use triangulation to locate the source of offensive transmissions. It turns out to be a radio station left operating in a small, abandoned California town....
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Includes an older version of "The Playboy Channel"
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We focus on 1938 and Orsen Well's "War Of The Worlds" broadcast that caused a panic among listeners. I play the whole original broadcast along with a lot of material about the Mercury Theatre production, including fiction about the making of it and post show debate and commentary of the time.
Topic: Series: How Radio Was Done
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Over the Edge: Music Is 1
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We begin a sub-series on space in the 60s which also focuses heavily on the music of the decade. This one is all about the early 60s, including NASA's Mercury Program launches from Cape Canaveral which put America's first men in space while music became folk-inspired and psychedelic drugs began to appear.
Topic: Series: Universe
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Over the Edge: Another UFO - Autopsy V
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The whole Fake Stone Age (everything prior to the Plasticene Age) will be dramatized tonight. Tom Patrick as Dr. Budding, genial genealogist and your guide to prehistory. Jeff Stoll as Ooomp, a young, nomadic night clubber, and Helen Istic as his nocturnal victim, The Refrigerator Lady. Mixed by Tool.
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Over the Edge: Negativland Live
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Richard of Negativland is Dick Bush tonight and I am Mark Feign doing a preemption show "replacing" O.T.E. This "pilot" format is a debate on religion in general and Christianity in particular. Dick is representing the Evangelical Fundamentalist ideology and Mark promotes Atheistic Reason and, after opening position statements, we take calls. Some listeners are well aware of where our tongues are, but due to our sustained seriousness and a rather believable level of...
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All about Apollo 11, this show covers the Man on the Moon from Saturn blast off to "footsteps on the Moon". Complete TV coverage of the event provides the details in a rearranged sort of way. The Saturn - a plumber's nightmare, a nice cut-up mix of the astronauts' last meal on earth, and lots of real communications mixed with fictional moonshot talk from "Countdown" The year is 1969 and so is some of the music. Real cool if you were there. Bill Moyers and Marshall McLuhan...
Topic: Series: Rocket Show
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Over the Edge: Another UFO - Roswell II
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Two World's Fairs of the early 60s are toured with emphasis on the glorious future science will bring us. Buckminster Fuller expounds on the concept and methods of design, Nasa prepares to launch Freedom 7, and The Who surround DJ Johnny Walker on England's Radio One.
Topic: Series: Universe
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A pseudo hoax show in which 'Mark Feign' hosts a call-in for people who want to trade guns (No sales were allowed because this is non-commercial radio). This turned out to be a great show even though it is slowed down in the first half hour by technical difficulties (one of the first shows done after KPFA moved into a new building with all new equipment.) A lot of call-ins with many folks playing along and some taking it rather seriously, broken up with mix sections of gun related material....
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With Babs Bendix
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Over the Edge: London Music Falling Down II
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Over the Edge: Another UFO UFO Radio
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Nothing happens until someone buys something! This show is a presentation of advertising, hailing from the points of views of consumer, manufacturer, and sales. "Another edition of hidden perspectives on the world around us." Classic Negativland sequences, such as Announcement from Escape from Noise and the concert favorite Free TV or Pay TV are peppered throughout. Commercials frequently appear, begging you to try Anacin, Wendy's, Cremo Cigars, Estes Candy, Pepsi, Dodge,...
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Over the Edge: Euro Receptacle
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A show about basics, based around the content of various flexi-discs from the 70s and 80s. We find out all about how these thin, flexible, plastic "sound sheets," playable on any turntable, were manufactured and marketed. Other sound sheet content includes the introduction of the original Casio 301 keyboard, songs for very young kids, radio DJ training, advertising, the Galax IV, the Astra, Girl Scouting, Neo-Life religious radio, and GE. I follow all the instructions given, including...
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Midge goes out with the guys for an evening of miniature bowling. Hubby Dunk searches her dresser and finds a faded letter postmarked in the Fake Stone Age. Analysis of the strange markings by Dr. Odious Wedge.
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Over the Edge: Best of OTE 88 89
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This is a truncated recording of the first 90 minutes of this show. Over the Edge blows out the vacuum tubes on a non-stop, quick-paced layer cake of sound and voices regarding the all-seeing, all-dominating Television. Commercials, sales pitches, televangelists, and media criticism swirl around the sounds of videogames, media critics and receptacles caught in the middle. A quiz show begins in-studio with many wrong answers to TV trivia, and then the show turns inside out as pre-recorded quiz...
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A group of human specialists give advice on any subject to callers. Naturally, the most popular subject is sex, (nothing else seems to be even a distant second) all mixed up with moaning, Mr. Noisy, How To Speak Hip, Mr. Rogers and other assorted media advisory bites. "The Weatherman got laid" rumor lures some calls from The Weatherman, and all this talking sometimes becomes complicated enough to break up into left and right channel discussion groups. Teetering on the edge of FCC...